Clarke v. 6485 & 6495 Broadway Apartment, Inc.

2017 NY Slip Op 3452, 150 A.D.3d 405, 51 N.Y.S.3d 390

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: May 2, 2017
• Docket: 3636 301746/13
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lucindo Suarez, J.), entered August 23, 2016, which denied defendant 6485 Apartment Associates, Inc.’s (defendant) motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

Defendant, the proprietary lessee of the cooperative unit above plaintiffs, established prima facie that it was not liable for the alleged nuisance to plaintiff caused by excessive noise emanating from that unit by demonstrating, through the sublease between itself and its subtenant, that it had relinquished possession and control of the unit (see Clarke v 6485 & 6495 Broadway Apt. Inc., 122 AD3d 494 [1st Dept 2014]; see also Taggart v Costabile, 131 AD3d 243, 247 [2d Dept 2015]). In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact.

Concur— Friedman, J.P., Sweeny, Moskowitz, Gische and Kapnick, JJ.